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Re: Your Move, Episode #3
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2015, 04:04:29 PM »
That buck has great potential, let him live atleast 2more years.
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Re: Your Move, Episode #3
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2015, 04:09:44 PM »
That buck has great potential, let him live atleast 2more years.

He also has great potential to be a tasty meal.  I have never killed a mule deer buck so I would take him.

If it was an average whitey with good potential, I could let him walk.
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Re: Your Move, Episode #3
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2015, 05:04:02 PM »
I would let the air out of him.  Taking a frontal shot only if he is under 30 yards.....so I would come to full draw and let him get as close as possible.  I am deadly accurate at those ranges....and I love his character, even though he is not a masher.  Beings I can buy another deer tag....he gets put in the freezer and on the wall.

Beings that he is ever so slightly turned I will put it just left of center, bottom 3rd.  I will probably watch him drop.   

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Re: Your Move, Episode #3
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2015, 07:49:58 PM »
That buck lives to see another day

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Re: Your Move, Episode #3
« Reply #19 on: February 10, 2015, 07:23:19 AM »
I'd take this shot.

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Re: Your Move, Episode #3
« Reply #20 on: February 10, 2015, 07:50:09 AM »
I am going with D-Rock's shot placement.  A buck on the ground is better than a bull in the brush.  This deer is dead and at camp in a few hours and I am back to elk hunting.
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Re: Your Move, Episode #3
« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2015, 07:54:17 AM »
Been in elk every day and that sounds like his bedroom that he is bugling from.  I would let him come a little more and see if he will give me a broadside shot it not I would put an arrow exactly where everyone else has pictured.  I would go after the bull tomorrow.  I always say you can't eat horns.  I would never pass on a good opportunity.
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Re: Your Move, Episode #3
« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2015, 08:15:04 AM »
This must be an awesome rut by the way, with 6" of snow on the ground.
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Re: Your Move, Episode #3
« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2015, 08:31:39 AM »
This must be an awesome rut by the way, with 6" of snow on the ground.
didn't think of that

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Re: Your Move, Episode #3
« Reply #24 on: February 10, 2015, 08:40:46 AM »
I'd stick him right where D-Rock pointed. Shot a muley doe a few years agon on a meat hunt. About 12 steps, same spot. Center punched the heart and the arrow came out opposite side just behind the last rib. She hopped 8 times and fell over. For me that is an up close shot only. Past 20 or so yards I'd pass.

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Re: Your Move, Episode #3
« Reply #25 on: February 10, 2015, 08:41:58 AM »
This must be an awesome rut by the way, with 6" of snow on the ground.

Used to happen more often years ago in NW MT/N ID but not so much anymore.  I remember several late September hunts with a lot of snow above 5K.  It ruled to put it mildly  :)
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